The end of the Mars Phoenix Lander's mission is sadly nigh, but astute Twitterers have the chance to compose an epitaph, in 140 characters or less of course, to mark the explorer's passing. NASA will make one last try to power the lander up this weekend, but it's likely that within days, Mars Phoenix's life will come to an end. To mark this exciting, crowd-pleasing, Tweeting trip ... Read full entry

Don't blame Ruby on Rails for Twitter's less than brilliant performance of late, blame it on the framework, and over eager developers in a rush to finish their work. Ruby on Rails is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. To build an application in Rails, you start by defining a collection of objects that model the things your application will do, then you write controllers that juggle your model in ... Read full entry

Tweet topic research results Good to see some solid facts, as a result of serious scientific research, on the matter. I'd miss this, as those Twitter tweets just fly by on the screen, but 20 per cent of them are just to say good morning or good night.